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Section 8: Penalty.

The Maharashtra Sale of Trees by Occupants belonging to Scheduled Tribes (Regulation) Act, 1969.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 23 of 1969

(1) Any person, who fells any trees in any holding or removes them therefrom in pursuance of any sale which is invalid under section 3, * * shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, and trees felled, if any, in contravention of this Act may be confiscated by order of the Court.

(2) The Magistrate may order that the whole or any part of the fine so imposed may be paid to the occupant as compensation.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Sale of Trees by Occupants belonging to Scheduled Tribes (Regulation) Act, 1969.
Section8
Marginal notePenalty.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • omitted, Mah. 16 of 1991. The words and figure "or in contravention of any order made by the Collector under section 4" were deleted by Mah. 16 of 1991, s. 3.

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